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Devices
Using the Context Widget, you can view a content item in order to see how it appears in different devices. By default, XperienCentral offers three device previews:
- Desktop
- Tablet
- Phone
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The "Time" options can be used together with the "Publication Status" option — these two features have an AND relationship. This means that when you are viewing the website at a certain time, you can also toggle between viewing all content items and only those that are active. See Publication Status for complete information on using that option to preview your website. |
When you lock the date and time, you can see which version of a content item will be active at that time. This has the following effects:
- Pages for which there is no version available in the published state at that date and time cannot be viewed.
- Page sections for which there is no version in the published state at that date and time are not shown on a web page.
- Items from the Content Repository for which there is no version in the published state at that date and time do not appear in Content Overview and Dynamic Content Overview content elements.
- Images, Downloads, Articles, Flash, Multimedia and custom content items for which there is no version in the published state at that date and time cannot be opened.
- Images, Downloads, Flash, Multimedia and custom content items for which there is no version in the published state at that date and time will not appear on pages, page sections and/or articles.
- Hyperlinks to content items with no version in the published state at that date and time will not appear as hyperlinks.
Whenever you attempt to view a content item that will not be available at the time specified by the "Time" option, the following message will appear:
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In order to prevent you from getting lost when using the "Time" options, the Site Structure and Page Sections widgets always show all pages/page sections as well as their status at the present moment (now), and not the status of the pages/page sections as they will be on the specified date. When you select a page or page section from these widgets and there is no version that is published at the date and time set in the "Time" option, you will see the above message. You can also use the XperienCentral Search and Advanced Search functions to locate all content items on your web site whether or not there is a version in the published state at the date and time specified. If there is no published version available, you will see the above message when you attempt to open them.
In this topic, the term "Current time" refers to the time that is currently specified by the "Time" option. The current time can be the present moment (now), a date and time in the future or a date and time in the past.
Default Time
When you select the "Default time" option, the current time becomes that of the publication date of the content item that you are viewing. When you view a different content item, the current time will change to the publication date of that content item. The content within the content item will reflect the reality of the current time. Any content that has a publication date in the future (Download, Image, Page Section, etc.) will not be visible in the content item.
Because the default time that is shown is calculated against the present moment (now), the following rules apply to the time that is considered current for a content item:
- If the content item has a publication date in the past, the current time is the present moment (now).
- If the content item has an expiration date in the past, the current time is the moment just after the content item expired.
- If the content item has a publication date in the future, the current time is the moment just after the content item will be published.
- If the content item is not in the published state, the current time is the moment just after the planned publication date.
The website and all its content items now appear as they will at the selected current time. For example, if you view a content item that is or will be published on October 14, 2014 at 1:31 P.M., the time in the Context widget will show that date and time as the current time:
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Lock the Date and Time
The "Lock Date and Time" option allows you to set the date and time of day to a fixed time, which makes it possible for you to navigate throughout your website and content items and preview them in the context of that specified time. The publication status of all content items is taken into account and the version of all content items that is considered to be current at that time are shown. Content items that have no current version at the time you choose will not be shown (Downloads, Images, Page Sections, etc.). The time locking functionality is useful for previewing situations such as online campaigns where you show specific content for a limited amount of time and want to see how it will look in the future or how it looked in the past.
To lock the date and time to a particular moment, follow these steps:
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Determining the Current Version of a Content Item
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The Is Used In Widget shows you where in the current channel the current content item is used. It is important to know where a content item is used in case you want to modify it but are not sure what effect this has on other parts of the channel. For example, if you delete an image from the Content Repository that is used elsewhere in the channel, the image will subsequently be unavailable everywhere it is used. The Is Used In Widget shows where all content types in XperienCentral are used. This includes the following:
- Page
- Page in the Content Repository
- Page Section
- Article
- Custom Content Type
- Image
- Download
In the top section of the Is Used In Widget, the number of content items that use the current content item are shown with the message "<content item name> is used in X content items". In the bottom section of the Is Used In Widget, the content items that use the current content item are shown. The name of the content item is shown prefixed with the icon used within XperienCentral to represent the content item type. The names of the content items themselves are links to that content item. For example:
To expand the widget to see more content items, hover the mouse over the middle of the bottom part of the widget until the expand icon appears. For example:
To navigate to a content item that uses the current content item, click its title. You will then navigate to that content item where you can inspect how it uses the original content item. For example, if you click a reference to a page from an image content item, you will navigate to the page and there you can see the image element that is using the image.
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What is Using?
A content item is considered to be used in another content item under the following circumstances:
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| Page | Page, page section, article | A hyperlink to the page. |
| Page section | Page, page section, article | The page section is assigned to a page or there is a link to the page section from a page, page section or article. |
| Image in the Content Repository | Page, page section, article | The image appears in an Image element on a page, page section or article. |
| Article | Content Overview element, page, page section, article | The article is referenced by a Content Overview element or a link on a page, page section or article. |
| Download in the Content Repository | Page, page section, article | The download is referenced by one of the following
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A content item can potentially be used in a Dynamic Content Overview, however this does not count in the using statistics because it is not known at any given time whether it definitely is being used. |
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Using the Publication Status option (Active/All), you can view your website from the perspective of all content items on your website (planned and published) or only the content items that are active (published).
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The "Publication Status" option can be used together with the "Time" options — these two features have an AND relationship. This means that when viewing the website at a specific time, you can also toggle the view between active content items and all content items. |
When "Active" is selected, only content items that are currently published will be available. This has the following effects:
- Pages for which there is no active version cannot be viewed.
- Page sections for which there is no active version are not shown on any web page.
- Items from the Content Repository for which there is no active version do not appear in Content Overview and Dynamic Content Overview content elements.
- Images, Downloads, Articles, Flash, Multimedia and custom content items for which there is no active version cannot be opened.
- Images, Downloads, Flash, Multimedia and custom content items for which there is no active version will not appear on pages, page sections and/or articles.
- Hyperlinks to content items with no active version will not appear as hyperlinks.
When you are viewing only published content items, the following message appears when you attempt to navigate to content that is not published at the present time or, if using the "Time" options, at the specified date and time:
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In order to prevent you from getting lost when using the "Publication Status" options, the Site Structure and Page Sections widgets always show all pages/page sections as well as their status at the present moment (now). You can also use the XperienCentral Search and Advanced Search options to locate all content items on your web site, regardless of whether they are active or not.
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